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Are all the thugs discovering Lawrence for the first time? It's almost as if a light bulb went off in every thug's head at once (like the sleeper Cylons) and they all felt compelled to drive to Lawrence and perpetrate.

That is freaky, I lived at McCollum when I went to KU in the late '90's. This kind of stuff never used to happen, and it seems to only be getting worse. I read that in 2000 there were 49 criminal assaults downtown, last year there were 250. I think the city leadership needs to get their heads out of the sand and start accepting that we have a real crime problem. It seems everyone wants to just pretend it's not happening and that we can still party like it's 1999.